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Digital Innovation and Transformation for Smart Cities

A special issue of Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 9765

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Seunghwan Myeong

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1. Department of Public Administration, Inha University, Incheon 22188, Republic of Korea
2. President, Korea Global Association for Smart Governance & Policy (GASGP), Republic of Korea
Interests: smart cities; smart governance; digital divide; smart city building in developing countries; international cooperation for smart cities, government innovation and project management; information technology and communication policy; research methodology
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Dr. Younhee Kim

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School of Public Affairs, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg, Middletown, PA 17057, USA
Interests: citizen participation; data-driven government; digital inclusion; e-governance; information technology policy; performance managment; public entrepreneurship; public management; research methodology; smart cities
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Dr. Michael Ahn

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Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Interests: electronic government; smart cities; AI in the public sector; technology innovations; social media; public management; public administration education; quantitative and qualitative research methodology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of digital technologies has revealed significant opportunities for advancing smart cities. The smart cities movement strategically employs cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions to enhance the quality of life, cultivate interconnected environments, and create data-driven analytical platforms. In the digital age, the success and impact of smart city initiatives and frameworks rely on the pillars of innovation, sustainability, and inclusivity, seamlessly transforming societies.

This Special Issue aims to bring together critical research and practical insights on various aspects of digital innovation and transformation in smart cities, with a focus on improving smart city environments in terms of infrastructure and technological aspects, sustaining inclusive smart city cultures and evidence-based platforms while addressing challenges and fostering citizen participation. We invite papers that discuss these dynamic aspects, exploring novel perspectives and insights that enrich the ongoing discourse on the evolution of smart cities. Various types of research such as analytical, descriptive, explanatory, case studies, and best practices are encouraged to explore the opportunities and challenges of transforming societies to make them smarter. Topics of interest include:

  • Emerging technologies shaping smart cities;
  • Innovative and resilient solutions to security-related challenges;
  • Sustainable smart city environments;
  • Digital inclusion and accessibility to digital opportunities;
  • Citizen engagement;
  • Data analytics and AI;
  • Public and private partnerships.

Prof. Dr. Seunghwan Myeong
Dr. Younhee Kim
Dr. Michael J. Ahn
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Smart Cities is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • innovative transformation
  • technological advancements
  • collaboration
  • data-driven analytical platforms
  • digital inclusion
  • accessibility to digital technologies and infrastructure
  • resilience

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Enhancing Urban Sustainability: Developing an Open-Source AI Framework for Smart Cities
by Miljana Shulajkovska, Maj Smerkol, Gjorgji Noveski and Matjaž Gams
Smart Cities 2024, 7(5), 2670-2701; https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities7050104 - 18 Sep 2024
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To address the growing need for advanced tools that enable urban policymakers to conduct comprehensive cost-benefit analyses of traffic management changes, the Urbanite H2020 project has developed innovative artificial intelligence methods. Among them is a robust decision support system that assists policymakers in [...] Read more.
To address the growing need for advanced tools that enable urban policymakers to conduct comprehensive cost-benefit analyses of traffic management changes, the Urbanite H2020 project has developed innovative artificial intelligence methods. Among them is a robust decision support system that assists policymakers in evaluating and selecting optimal urban mobility planning modifications by combining objective and subjective criteria. Utilising open-source microscopic traffic simulation tools, accurate digital models (or “digital twins”) of four pilot cities—Bilbao, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and Messina—were created, each addressing unique mobility challenges. These challenges include reducing private vehicle access in Bilbao’s city center, analysing the impact of increased bicycle traffic and population growth in Amsterdam, constructing a mobility-enhancing tunnel in Helsinki, and improving public transport connectivity in Messina. The research introduces five key innovations: the application of a consistent open-source simulation platform across diverse urban environments, addressing integration and consistency challenges; the pioneering use of Dexi for advanced decision support in smart cities; the implementation of advanced visualisations; and the integration of the machine learning tool, Orange, with a user-friendly GUI interface. These innovations collectively make complex data analysis accessible to non-technical users. By applying multi-label machine learning techniques, the decision-making process is accelerated by three orders of magnitude, significantly enhancing urban planning efficiency. The Urbanite project’s findings offer valuable insights into both anticipated and unexpected outcomes of mobility interventions, presenting a scalable, open-source AI-based framework for urban decision-makers worldwide. Full article
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Data Governance to Counter Hybrid Threats against Critical Infrastructures
by Gabriel Pestana and Souzanna Sofou
Smart Cities 2024, 7(4), 1857-1877; https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities7040072 - 22 Jul 2024
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Hybrid threats exploit vulnerabilities in digital infrastructures, posing significant challenges to democratic countries and the resilience of critical infrastructures (CIs). This study explores integrating data governance with business process management in response actions to hybrid attacks, particularly those targeting CI vulnerabilities. This research [...] Read more.
Hybrid threats exploit vulnerabilities in digital infrastructures, posing significant challenges to democratic countries and the resilience of critical infrastructures (CIs). This study explores integrating data governance with business process management in response actions to hybrid attacks, particularly those targeting CI vulnerabilities. This research analyzes hybrid threats as a multidimensional and time-dependent problem. Using the Business Process Model and Notation, this investigation explores data governance to counter CI-related hybrid threats. It illustrates the informational workflow and context awareness necessary for informed decision making in a cross-border hybrid threat scenario. An airport example demonstrates the proposed approach’s efficacy in ensuring stakeholder coordination for potential CI attacks requiring cross-border decision making. This study emphasizes the importance of the information security lifecycle in protecting digital assets and sensitive information through detection, prevention, response, and knowledge management. It advocates proactive strategies like implementing security policies, intrusion detection software tools, and IT services. Integrating Infosec with the methodology of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, especially in the response phase, is essential for a proactive Infosec approach, ensuring a swift stakeholder response and effective incident mitigation. Effective data governance protects sensitive information and provides reliable digital data in CIs like airports. Implementing robust frameworks enhances resilience against hybrid threats, establishes trusted information exchange, and promotes stakeholder collaboration for an emergency response. Integrating data governance with Infosec strengthens security measures, enabling proactive monitoring, mitigating threats, and safeguarding CIs from cyber-attacks and other malicious activities. Full article
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Systematic Review
A Review on Key Innovation Challenges for Smart City Initiatives
by Rui José and Helena Rodrigues
Smart Cities 2024, 7(1), 141-162; https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities7010006 - 2 Jan 2024
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Smart city initiatives are being promoted across the world to address major urban challenges, and they all share a common belief in the transformative power of digital technologies. However, the pace of innovation in smart cities seems to be much slower than the [...] Read more.
Smart city initiatives are being promoted across the world to address major urban challenges, and they all share a common belief in the transformative power of digital technologies. However, the pace of innovation in smart cities seems to be much slower than the rapid and profoundly disruptive transformations brought about by digital innovation in many other domains. To develop new insights about the main causes behind this relatively modest success, this study provides a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the connection between major smart city challenges and the essential properties of digital innovation. The review involved the qualitative analysis of 44 research papers reporting on smart city innovation practices and outcomes. The results characterize five major challenge categories for smart city innovation: Strategic vision; Organizational Capabilities and Agility; Technology Domestication; Ecosystem Development; and Transboundary Innovation. This study also explores the connections between these challenges and concrete digital innovation practices in smart city initiatives. The main conclusion is that current innovation practices in smart cities are not properly aligned with what the research literature commonly describes as core properties of digital innovation and that this might be a major cause behind the limited progress in smart city initiatives. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

Title: Networked Resistance to Smart City Development: Digital Mediation and Politicization of Social Datafication in a Low-Trust Society
Author: Ting
Highlights: This article investigates how digital mediation and politicization undermined smart city development; It explicates how ordinary citizens curated oppositional narratives and action repertoires; It also illustrates the (re)production of alternative socio-technical imaginaries and counter-public responses to social datafication in the digital realm; It sheds new light on an underexplored (dis)juncture between citizen engagement and smart city development.

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